Sarah Azaria: Inspired by “Young Women of Sparta (Jeunes filles de Sparte)” by Jean-Baptiste-Camille

“This is a painting of the ‘erotic’ daughter of Spartes. In the description, she is a young woman dressed provocatively on a leopard skin in the forest. She is supposed to taunt the admirer while her friends are playing in the background. She holds an instrument she doesn’t play, and she rests in a position that doesn’t look very comfortable. So I made her stand up and run away from the painter(I indicated the movement with the long beige strokes all over the page). Her hair is untied and she is barefoot. She is a young Demi-goddess after all...” -Sarah Azaria